Vision from God Saves Teen Accident Victim

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Vision from God Saves Teen Accident Victim

Rescuer's "vision" attracts attention

By Natalie Singer

Seattle Times Eastside bureau

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Up since Sunday, Sha Nohr does a phone interview yesterday about the

vision that she said led her to Laura Hatch, the 17-year-old girl

who had been missing for eight days. Nohr and her daughter located

Hatch on Sunday.

 

Dehydration likely helped teen survive in car, doctor says

 

There was a time Sha Nohr says she was ashamed of her "visions."

 

She confided in the minister at her old church, telling him that

once in a while, she felt the presence of a deceased loved one or

heard a message whispered to her from some unexplained source.

 

Nohr said the minister told her it was the devil.

 

This week, Nohr is receiving a different kind of response from media

outlets and believers around the country.

 

A vision that Nohr said came to her in a dream led her Sunday

morning to Laura Hatch, the 17-year-old Redmond girl who was alive

in her crashed car after being missing eight days.

 

>From her hillside home overlooking the Sammamish River Valley

yesterday, Nohr described how she dreamed Saturday night that her

teenage daughter's friend was stuck in a ravine off Northeast Union

Hill Road.

 

The next morning, Nohr and her daughter, Beth Ann Brooks, took a

drive and stopped where Nohr said she felt Hatch's presence. The

mother of three scrambled down a 150-foot embankment and found Hatch

inside her crumpled Camry.

 

"I don't know how to describe it," Nohr said. "It was like the

feeling I had when my children were born."

 

"I think it's a miracle," added Brooks, 17, who showed her mother a

picture of Hatch on Saturday, when she was distraught over her

missing friend. "It's God."

 

Nohr, who normally spends her days growing dahlias, mothering and

helping with her husband's dental business, is fielding phone calls

from journalists around the country. She wore the same blue blouse

for two days and barely slept the night after she discovered Hatch;

television crews were filming in her living room at 1 a.m.

 

She had to lock herself in the bathroom yesterday just to talk to

her anxious mother in Arkansas.

 

At first, Nohr said she wasn't sure whether the dream, in which she

said a voice urged her to "keep going," would lead her to Hatch.

 

"And my husband pretty much rolled his eyes," said Nohr, a

Mississippi transplant with a Southern drawl who kept answering the

telephone politely yesterday as strangers hounded her.

 

Although she belongs to an online prayer group for women, Nohr said

she hasn't believed in organized religion since the minister shamed

her years ago.

 

Yesterday, Nohr dismissed skeptics who don't believe a vision led

her to Hatch.

 

"They don't want to believe. They're scared that it could be true,"

she said. "What do they think I did, place the girl out there?"

 

Natalie Singer: 206-464-2704 or nsinger

 

 

 

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